Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead

You can say one thing about Ted V. Mikels as a director and that is that he's consistent: consistently awful, that is. PARANORMAL EXTREMES: TEXT MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD is as ridiculous as it sounds, a no-budget outing in the supernatural film genre with a plot that writes itself. The problem with this film is the cheapness of it: the entire movie consists of people sitting around in rooms and acting very badly.

There's something about doomed romance here and messages from the afterlife, but it's all faintly ridiculous and none of the actors involved convince you of their motivations. The wooden lead, Colie Knoke, is particularly awful and puts you off watching whenever she's on the screen, which is 99% of the time. Otherwise the film is padded out with footage of tattooed non actors, cheesy emoting, and a handful of lame superimposed special effects that they shouldn't have bothered with. It's a dog.

Ted V Mikels is an elderly B-movie mogul who did his best work in the late 1960s but here he is in the 2010s and still putting out entertaining work. Now "Paranormal Extremes" is totally cheap and absurd and not that much happens, compared to the latest superhero cash-in. But there's more heart and individuality - maybe even art - in this movie than in the multiplex.

You can easily warm up to the characters, laugh at their dialogue and enjoy the primitive special effects, without ever having your intellect insulted or being sold some bullshit deep morals from a giant corporation. No, this movie is not scary or sexy or hip. But it doesn't need to be. Its fun and innocent and a great departure from the Hollywood formula.

Mikels sucks in everything he does. I have yet to see a half decent movie by him. The acting is horrible. The writing is weak. The whole thing is stupid. Please stop releasing this guy's crap!!!

Title is self explanatory,don't even think about watching this more than the opening credits...it's just not there.

This whole "movie" is like kids playing with daddy's camera.

Extremely poorly acted, abhorring filming skills, awful plot and I can go on forever.

Only watch this if you're planning to make fun of it or if you're high enough to enjoy the ridiculousness of it all.

Hope you're gonna take my advice and not even throw a glance at it.

I don't even know how this was published ! It doesn't deserve even a 1 star rating.

Thank you.

Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead (2015)

BOMB (out of 4)

Addison (Colie Knoke) receives a text message from her boyfriend who is driving to another state. She doesn't answer but the next morning she learns that he was killed in an accident and it turns out that he sent the messages after he was dead. Addison has a hard time finding anyone to believe her but she thinks the boyfriend is trying to get in contact with her.

I really love the work of director Ted V. Mikels. Wait, let me say that I really love Mikels but I can't stand his work. I love hearing the man talk and he's certainly an interesting character that I could listen to all day. With that said, his films have always been less-than- stellar but as a fan I get excited whenever a new movie comes out. This here is his latest direct-to-video release and sadly there's really nothing good about it.

I've said this before with some of the previous films but is there really a reason this film needed to last 104 minutes? I also have to question who this film is aimed at except for fans of the director like myself who will watch anything that he releases. Mikels has never been one to do exploitation pictures meaning that he doesn't resort to graphic violence, sex or nudity. Instead he just has films like this that seem to serve no real purpose. I mean, there isn't any gore or nudity here. FIne. However, it's not scary either so what's the point of the film?

Outside of three cuss words the films from Pixar contain more adult elements. There's just nothing of interest here and worse of all is the fact that the film runs so long when there's really not enough story here for a short film. I think the idea of receiving text messages from a dead person could have been made into something entertaining but that's certainly not this project.

As you'd expect, the film was shot on a very low-budget and features the type of acting that you'd expect. None of these bad elements would be as painful if there was something else here to keep us entertained but there's really nothing. Fans will enjoy seeing Mikels in a small role but that's not enough to make this worth watching.